This is really amazing! Here is a leader of the so-called "rejectionist" front, Assad of Syria, urging Turkey not only to mend its relations with its strategic ally, Israel, but to strengthen such ties!

He asks rhetorically, "how else can Turkey play a role in the "peace process" in the Middle East?" And he adds, "if Turkey wants to help us on the subject of Israel, then it should have good relations with Israel."

By the same token, Mr. Assad should ask his strategic ally Iran to have good relations with Tel-Aviv if Tehran wanted to play a role in "the peace process!" Is there more political bankruptcy than this?

Lately relations have soured between Turkey and Israel due to Turkey's criticism of Israel's slaughter of Palestinians and the siege of Gaza.

But for the "rejectionist" hero to advocate not just normalization with Israel, but strengthening of strategic alliance with Israel, makes him more Israeli than Shimon Peres!